With Ralph in DC, David in LA and Steve in New Zealand, Ralph tells us how one airline made the mistake of bumping him from a flight, how Paul Ryan lives in a corporate bubble, how he might tweak our system of government, and how one irate gentleman once delighted in blowing smoke in his face.
The brilliant writer Jerry Stahl, best known for his memoir of addiction Permanent Midnight. His latest books are “Bad Sex On Speed” and “Happy Baby Mutant Pills: A Novel.” Also on our show Carol Rafael Davis on Los Angeles’s spay and neuter laws, Journalist John Matthews on Heartbleed, The King of TV on Mad Men, Film Critic Michael Snyder and Will Ryan & The Cactus County Cowboys.
Ralph pitches a couple of apps, explains how not to get screwed on contracts, and we ask him if the Comcast/Time-Warner merger is good for us. Take a wild guess.
Ralph carves up Antonin Scalia and “Corporate Welfare King,” Rush Limbaugh, points out how Exxon actually made money on the Exxon/Valdez oil spill; and we discuss whether Germany actually won World War II, and the one position that Ralph took that he now regrets.
New movies, new books and new congressmen. Dr. Lee Rogers, Film Critic Michael Snyder, Down With Tyranny’s Howie Klein, Journalist John Matthews, and Author Cari Lynn.
In episode three of the Ralph Nader Radio Hour, Ralph tells Bernie Sanders to go for it, tells us why a corporation does not have religious beliefs, why college athletes should be paid and pays tribute to the late anti-war writer and activist, Jonathan Schell.